A book on African art which embraces the creative work of the entire continent south of the Sahara. It provides a close-up view of masterpieces from Mali to Madagascar, the Gold Coast to the Indian Ocean, the Sudan to South Africa. Included are Kongo nail fetishes and Nigerian statuettes.
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Hundreds of never-before reproduced objects from private collections and museums make this extraordinary survey of sub-Saharan African art revelatory for serious students and casual browsers alike. In his jargon-laden, academic essay, French philosopher Stephan discusses Western misreadings of African art as well as portraiture and representation of space in African sculpture. Kerchache, a French art collector, in a more helpful essay, restores these masks, ancestor figures, ceremonial objects, fetishes, statuettes and forged-iron sculptures to their sociocultural milieu. Fortunately, vivid, engrossing profiles of more than 100 ethnic groups provide a firm context, helping the reader to distinguish naturalist figurines of the Bamana people of West Africa from eerily powerful Fang reliquaries of Cameroon and Gabon. Nearly 250 of the 1069 plates are in color.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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comprehensive photo collection,
This review is from: Art of Africa (Hardcover)
get this book! it holds the most comprehensive collection of photographs for African sculptures and mask's the photos are very impressive many are in a fool page format annotation are well organized and portray origins and history of the "art" pieces.
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This review is from: Art of Africa (Hardcover)
This book is hard to come by, but it is worth it if you want the most comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia of tribal African art. There are over 1,000 photos in this oversize 620 page epic overview. You will never tire studying this book. Get one if you can. If you can get one for $200 or less you have really succeeded. Mine was hand carried by a friend who found one in NYC that was located for him by an African art dealer there. Lots of the photos are full color, and large. The book gives an overview of the art, a comparison of aesthetics, and breaks down the types and styles by analysis of every feature you can imagine, and does so in an inspired way. Part Two looks at the art by region where you see the similarities and contrasts of tribes within a geographically relevant part Africa. This is a hard book to put down...every time.
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A Reference "Book-of-Books",
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This review is from: Art of Africa (Hardcover)
Over the past 15 years or so, I have become an avid African arts enthusiasts, especially relating to reference material.
Several books I own have are informative and assisted with insights, but this publications is more like a comprehensive dictionary [or encyclopedia] of African arts than anything else. It was a reference standard when published, and will certainly remain an epoch publication for years to follow.
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